I don't agree with you on this onejdsm_flsFebruary 2 2006, 04:29:22 UTC
If all doctors are NOT required to perform abortions, then why should ALL pharmacists be required to perform pharmaceutical abortions? To me, it comes down to the same process as getting an abortion. You go to where they are offered. Same thing for the Plan B prescription, you go to where it is offered. I did consider the fact that most insurance plans require their customers to use specific pharmacies, but given that most insurance plans don't even cover birth control pills, I don't think they cover Plan B and therefore asking the woman to go to the next corner where there is a Walgreens or the next corner where there is a CVS or the next corner where there is a Rite Aid is NOT a big inconvenience. It's just like having to go to the larger cities to have an abortion. It may require a short drive, but if you want or need it bad enough, you do it.
To me, this is a basic civil rights issue. And by siding with NOW and other organizations that insist that all pharmacists should be required to perform pharmaceutical abortions is simply ignoring the civil rights of the pharmacists. Everyone in this country is entitled to the freedom to practice their religious beliefs, rather they be at work, home or in the street.
For the record, I am VERY much pro-choice. I just don't believe that the road to keeping abortion legal should be paved with stones that smashed the civil rights of others. If we, as women, look at the right to choose as a civil right (which I do), then we should be appalled that organizations that claim to further women's rights wish to do so at any cost to those that aren't in their "group."
To me, this is a basic civil rights issue. And by siding with NOW and other organizations that insist that all pharmacists should be required to perform pharmaceutical abortions is simply ignoring the civil rights of the pharmacists. Everyone in this country is entitled to the freedom to practice their religious beliefs, rather they be at work, home or in the street.
For the record, I am VERY much pro-choice. I just don't believe that the road to keeping abortion legal should be paved with stones that smashed the civil rights of others. If we, as women, look at the right to choose as a civil right (which I do), then we should be appalled that organizations that claim to further women's rights wish to do so at any cost to those that aren't in their "group."
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